Examining Assessment: Principles and Practices for Writing Classrooms and Programs

The 2014 North Carolina Symposium on Teaching Writing invites you to explore the use of assessment within and across writing programs. As educators and scholars, assessment frequently features in our jobs and classrooms for a variety of purposes. In our classrooms we utilize formative and summative assessment to both enhance student learning as well as reflect on our own teaching practices and principles. We also aim to engage students in effective assessment of their own and others' work while modeling this behavior in our own teaching and scholarship. Outside of the classroom, our professional responsibilities concerning assessment include instructor reviews, student placement, and program assessment. The CCCC Position Statement on Writing Assessment serves as a reminder that writing and assessment are social activities, requiring communication between all members of the writing program community. It is in this social spirit that we invite you to consider the many ways assessment features in our lives as educators and scholars and how it affects our profession inside and outside the classroom.

Specific Guidelines for Submission: Individual paper proposals should be 200-300 words in length. Panel submissions should not total more than 1000 words. Panels will be 75 minutes in length, including Q&A. All sessions will be held in rooms with Internet access and projection capabilities. Please indicate any other technology requirements. We encourage participation from all faculty ranks, and we particularly encourage contingent faculty, K-12 faculty, TYC faculty, and graduate student participation.

The deadline for proposals for the 2014 Symposium is Friday, October 25, 2014.

Submit proposals as a Microsoft Word compatible attachment (.doc or .docx) or PDF to: Megan Hall (mnhall2@ncsu.edu). PLEASE INCLUDE ALL IDENTIFYING INFORMATION – TITLE, NAME(S), AFFILIATION(S), AND EMAIL ADDRESS(ES) – IN THE EMAIL. THE ONLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION IN THE PROPOSAL DOCUMENT ITSELF SHOULD BE THE TITLE.